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HDD reliability
mookaloid - 7/2/09 at 03:17 PM

I'm coming across several failed hard drives recently - Western Digital and Samsung being the 2 most recent.

Which makes are the most reliable?

Cheers

Mark

ReMan - 7/2/09 at 04:18 PM

Are you talking about Desktop or Laptop drives?

Dangle_kt - 7/2/09 at 04:20 PM

proper cooling helps, heat often kills an otherwise reliable brand.

dhutch - 7/2/09 at 04:50 PM

We have about 5-6 Seagates on the go around the place, two in this machine, and so far have been fairly happy.
- Only ever had one die, which was a 11gb Fujitsu about 8 years ago.

These are pata and sata desktop drives.


Daniel

flak monkey - 7/2/09 at 05:01 PM

I have had an 80Gb IBM drive for about 8 years now, still going strong. My newer drives have all been Maxtor or Seagate Barracudas, all of which have been faultless.

Having said that all of mine are sitting behind a good fan which is regularly cleaned.

Cheers,
David

graememk - 7/2/09 at 05:35 PM

i always build with maxtor and if you keep them coolish you wont have a problem.

but to be honest they arnt as reliable as they used to be, change more psu's and hard drive now than ever before

mookaloid - 7/2/09 at 05:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
Are you talking about Desktop or Laptop drives?


The WD was a desk top 3.5"

The Samsung was a 3 month old 2.5"

mookaloid - 7/2/09 at 05:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
proper cooling helps, heat often kills an otherwise reliable brand.


Good point - I hate noisy PC's I have been known to disconnect the case fan to keep it quiet

martyn_16v - 7/2/09 at 06:45 PM

I've never had a Seagate fail on me, and I look after a lot of machines

mcerd1 - 7/2/09 at 06:57 PM

I've used seagate disks in everything for the last 7 years in all the machines I've built/ fixed for myself and the family (about 20+ disks) and so far none have failed so far (the first one I got is still going in this machine I'm using now)

but I've had a WD and 2 Fujitsu's that both failed at about a year old


I was running my main disk in a big alloy heatsink thing (with a fan built in) that fitted in a 5.25" bay and I could do with a couple more of these, but I can't find anywhere that sells them now - anyone know where you can get them ?

BenB - 7/2/09 at 07:10 PM

I wasn't sure what HDs I'm running so I just looked....

3* Maxtor drives.
1 is 10 years old, 1 is 6 years old, one is 2 years old.

None have every had any errors.....
So I can firmly recommend Maxtors!!!!!!

mcerd1 - 7/2/09 at 07:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
None have every had any errors.....
So I can firmly recommend Maxtors!!!!!!


Maxtor are made by seagate

BenTyreman - 7/2/09 at 07:55 PM

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing

mookaloid - 7/2/09 at 08:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenTyreman
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing


Damn I just ordered a seagate